At
this time of the year, when Christians celebrate Easter, a big percentage
celebrate it in a distorted way. There’s a lot of emphasis on the cross, when
the cross was a place of death and curse. Isaiah 53 gives us a good perspective
of Jesus going through the cross.
Many say and many emphasis that we have been saved by the cross. Happens that if Jesus had gone to the cross and nothing else had happened, it wouldn’t help us nothing at all. Our victory, and our salvation, wasn’t through the death of Jesus. Because of sin, we had been sentenced to physical and spiritual death. A dead Jesus wouldn’t help us at all. Yet, many still see Him this way. And others still have Him on the cross… through the crucifix.
Many say and many emphasis that we have been saved by the cross. Happens that if Jesus had gone to the cross and nothing else had happened, it wouldn’t help us nothing at all. Our victory, and our salvation, wasn’t through the death of Jesus. Because of sin, we had been sentenced to physical and spiritual death. A dead Jesus wouldn’t help us at all. Yet, many still see Him this way. And others still have Him on the cross… through the crucifix.
We Christians have nothing to celebrate about the cross. And we have nothing to sing about the cross. The cross was a place of scorn, mockery, shame, curse and death.
We haven’t been saved because Jesus went to the cross, but because He conquered death. If He hadn’t been resurrected, nothing would’ve change. We would continue dead through all eternity. The victory of Jesus over death, brought us back everything that Adam lost. That’s why the apostle Paul classifies Him as the second Adam.
Through Jesus resurrection (victory over death), we have been saved, forgiven, and have become children of God. Jesus resurrection brought us abundant life here on earth and eternal life after the death of our bodies.
The cross is something to forget. There is nothing to celebrate concerning the cross. Our Easter celebration should be based on Jesus conquering death. Matter of fact He celebrated His own victory, precisely talking about His victory over death. We see this in Revelation 1:18, when He said… “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death”.
On this Easter, let’s celebrate Jesus victory through His resurrection. And let us not be religious by celebrating it just once a year. Let’s have the attitude to celebrate our victory in Christ every day.
And for the ones that like to have a cross as a symbol of Jesus and what He did for us, how about replacing it with an empty tomb?
Happy Easter to all.
